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jungle

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Overview

A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent century. Etymology The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jaṅgala, meaning rough and arid. It came into the English language via Hindi in the 18th century. Jāṅgala has also been variously transcribed in English as jangal, jangla, jungal, and juṅgala. Although the Sanskrit word refers to dry land, it has been suggested that an Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its connotation as a dense "tangled thicket", while others have argued that a cognate word in Urdu derived from Persian, جنگل (Jangal), did refer to forests. The term is prevalent in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, and the Iranian Plateau, where it is commonly used to refer to the plant growth replacing primeval forest or to the unkempt tropical vegetation that takes over abandoned areas. Wildlife Because jungles occur on all inhabited landmasses and may incorporate numerous vegetation and land types in different climatic zones, the wildlife of jungles cannot be straightforwardly defined.

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Notable quotes

“I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.”
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 12 : Man's Reason
“He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn't evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world.”
— Karl Marlantes, in Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, Ch. 19 (2010)
“It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.”
— P. L. Travers, in Mary Poppins (1934), Hamadryad, the King Cobra, in Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"

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Not who you're looking for? Others named jungle: 2002 studio album by Astrud Gilberto · 2025 song by Sugababes · 2000 film by Ram Gopal Varma · song by Kiss

Notable quotes

“I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.”
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 12 : Man's Reason
“He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn't evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world.”
— Karl Marlantes, in Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, Ch. 19 (2010)
“It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.”
— P. L. Travers, in Mary Poppins (1934), Hamadryad, the King Cobra, in Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent century. Etymology The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jaṅgala, meaning rough and arid. It came into the English language via Hindi in the 18th century. Jāṅgala has also been variously transcribed in English as jangal, jangla, jungal, and juṅgala. Although the Sanskrit word refers to dry land, it has been suggested that an Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its connotation as a dense "tangled thicket", while others have argued that a cognate word in Urdu derived from Persian, جنگل (Jangal), did refer to forests. The term is prevalent in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, and the Iranian Plateau, where it is commonly used to refer to the plant growth replacing primeval forest or to the unkempt tropical vegetation that takes over abandoned areas. Wildlife Because jungles occur on all inhabited landmasses and may incorporate numerous vegetation and land types in different climatic zones, the wildlife of jungles cannot be straightforwardly defined.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).